Salvijus

I know. In the end Langan is wet for Jesus. There are many different types of Christians btw, that could look very different from one another.

It's just honesty not a philosophy really. Mark that on your forehead. Make a tattoo out of it. Live it with every breath. Not because it's a great philosophy but because that is honesty to what your heart truly wants. And you'll discover God's participation in your life in every step that you take. And he knows how to have fun

Now you can go into the world and be forever happy with this new philosophy. Wohoo! Case closed.

See that's not survival instinct, that's god calling you home. That's a desire that's impossible to kill. And it's in every heart.

ahallelujah

It's called stagnation. Your soul is thirsty for more, hence the dry suffering and the feeling of drag.

So it does feel liberating in a way. What if there is a lot lot more of that feeling waiting for you? Infinitely more? Wouldn't it be natural to long for that?

Well doesn't that make you feel a bit better?

It need not necessarily be an action. You can sit and revebarate with your true will and not do anything else and feel good about it. Although as your internal state shifts you may find yourself inspired to live more intensely outside aswell.

It's in there, if you pay closer attention there are moments where you allow your heart to be expressed. Little drops of that energy come through. In these moments you feel more alive and good. The goal is to make those drops into wild unstoppable rivers.

Fear of death is not the problem, fear of life is the problem. Fear to say to life and to your heart 100% yes and live accordingly.

There is a driving force beyond the survival that is not concerned about survival but is concerned about exploration, expansion, passion, creativity and celebration. That's your true will, that's the will of god inside you. The fear of survival is egoic will, this voice of fear often causes us to deny our true will and we end up living not the life that we truly want, but the life that is considered safe by egoic fear based standards. If we deny our heart too much, inner conflict arises between what we truly want and what we chose to do. The degree of depression follows accordingly inevitably. In fact, the denial of your true will is the only way to feel down.

He was trying to be cool, haha.

To live is a natural desire of every living organism. By the will of god it is so. And that will is your will aswell. But when we lose awareness or we suppress our deepest most natural desires/will, then we become "disconnected" from God and then we get funny ideas that wouldn't exist otherwise.

We can take that into account, but I don't know if it matters much in this case.

No I haven't validated his workings, I barely understand him, lol. Although I have come to some of the same conclusions as him just through a different route.

Well high iq score by definition means his reasoning is going to be super sharp and clean. There is still room for error if a person is using his intellect to support his egoic agenda. In such cases one can use the intellect to bend logic and endorse their agenda. But who's to judge other person's level of ego? One would have to be egoless himself to intuit the other person's density of ego correctly. And none of us here are egoless. So nobody has an upper hand to call him bias here. And nobody has a superior reasoning than him here because his reasoning is the highest in the world. That said, it's still possible that he's wrong, it just that nobody here qualifies to make that statement.

Idk, but perhaps he had good reasons to believe it is true. True. Only your ability to make sense and be logical increases as one's iq increases. That alone is not enough to be automatically right, but it's a factor worth considering that has weight. Egolessness and unbiasness is also another important factor to consider, but perhaps he excels even in that domain. So on what basis are people going to criticize his position? Simply calling him wrong and deluded has no weight.

The only antidote against self deception is egolessness. Because it's the selfish part of us that wants to twist reality to suit our own agenda. However, I would argue even in that department Chris is ahead you guys. But that debate would be hard to resolve. It's hard to measure people's egos in a tangable way.

The arguments I see here are based on reasoning and logic. It just so happens that a person with a much higher capacity to reason and be logical has a different opinion on this topic. It also gives him more weight and credibility because his reasoning is much less likely to have flaws. That's the definition of high iq basically.

The argument that a cognitive developed mind would reject Christianity doesn't stand because a person with a sharpest, most resonable, logical, cognitive mind with 210iq is actually a christian, lol.

@CoolDreamThanks there's a video of Raj giving a discourse on the topic "the basis of a dream". Because it's your favorite subject I thought you'll be interested, haha. In the beginning he talks a bit about the Christmas then moves on to talk about the subject. He even says many things in your favor, or at least seemingly so, I guess it depends how one interprets it.

That's not the way to understand Christianity. Beliefs have nothing to do with understanding. It's when you enter a Chapel sanctuary (be it in external form or internal) and tears of love knock you down on the floor that you realize "oh fuck, this is real" lol. That's when it begins to make more sense slowly aswell. Although there's a lot of bs there too on the surface level until you go deeper into more mystical christianity where the real essence reveals itself.

I used to think christianity is the dummest thing on the planet. Little did I know I was the dummest fool on the planet You just have to dig a bit deeper.

I never thought acim could be turned into a funny chess game lol.